This November, the world’s largest fair dedicated to photography, Paris Photo, returns to the Grand Palais, bringing together galleries, collectors, and artists from across the world for one of the most anticipated events on the art calendar. Now in its 29th edition, the fair coincides with the bicentenary of photography, offering an opportunity to consider how the medium has evolved and the artists who continue to push its boundaries.
Among this year’s exhibitors, we’ve selected a group of four Latin American photographers whose work we think deserves a closer look. They span across different generations and artistic approaches, moving from explorations of identity and memory to experimental interventions in public space.
Miguel Ángel Rojas
Presented by La Cometa
Long before conversations around queer visibility entered the mainstream art world, Colombian artist Miguel Ángel Rojas was documenting encounters that took place beyond public view.
During the 1970s, Rojas photographed encounters inside Bogotá’s cinemas, working discreetly in spaces where desire existed under the threat of social persecution. The resulting images, often grainy and partially obscured, capture moments of intimacy while revealing the conditions that made such encounters invisible to the wider public.
